The Cask of Amontillado

• Engels
• Middelbare school
• havo
• Leerjaar 5

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00:29

What is the name of the narrator in this short story?

1. Amontillado
2. Fortunato
3. Montresor
4. Luchresi

01:35

Why does Montresor keeps giving wine to Fortunato

1. They're playing a drinking game
2. To keep him intoxicated
3. To keep warm in the vaults
4. It's Carnival!

01:50

What does "impunity" mean?

1. freedom from punishment
2. punishment
3. imprisonment
4. impure

02:38

What is ironic about Fortunato's name and appearance?

02:52

Dramatic Irony occurs when the audience or readers know more about a situation than the character does.

1. true
2. false

03:01

Verbal irony is a figure of speech in which a speaker says one thing and means it.

1. true
2. false

05:16

How does Montresor
feel about the murder?

justified

no remorse

family honor restored

Question time

“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”

“The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could, but when he ventured upon insult I vowed revenge.”

Q. 1

"A wrong is unredressed when retribution overtakes its redresser." 

Even if a victim gets revenge on the person who wronged him/her, there’s no complete revenge if the victim is soured by the event/poisoned by the pursuit of revenge

Q2

It is equally unredressed when the avenger fails to make himself felt as such to him who has done the wrong.” 

Revenge alone isn’t enough when someone’s done you wrong. You not only need to get your revenge, but the person who did you wrong needs to KNOW that you’ve won

Q2

It’s the aggressor’s knowledge of being bested that makes the revenge truly sweet, Montresor seems to be saying.

Q2

Do you know any famous ones?

Q3

Q4

Fortunato costume
choice is ...

To whom, do you suppose, is Montresor telling this story? Why?

Q5

Q6

3 clever things M does

A few of his tricks 

First, he dangles a rare treat, the Amontillado, before Fortunato, who is a known wine connoisseur. 
Second, he finds Fortunato on a party night when he’s already a bit drunk and his defenses are down. 
Third, he continues to ply Fortunato with alcohol to further blur his judgment. 
Fourth, he uses the threat of Fortunato losing his opportunity to sample the Amontillado to a rival, Luchresi. 
Fifth, he pretends several times that it would be best for them not to proceed further down the path, knowing that Fortunato will insist they continue.

Q7

Foreshadowing

1. “Enough,” [Fortunato] said. “The cough’s a mere nothing; it will not kill me. I shall not die of a cough.” 

2. Montresor has brought a trowel with him to the catacombs, which he jokingly shows to Fortunato, who is too thick to ask questions.

Q8

Q. 9 

When the two men are drinking the Medoc, Fortunato says, “I drink...to the buried that repose around us.” Then, Montresor says, “And I to your long life.” This is ironic because Montresor intends for just the opposite to be true.

Q. 10

1.

2.

3. Dutch Courage 

Q. 11

It’s most likely a combination of the dampness of the tunnels and the nitre, or potassium nitrate, in the air. He does not feel sick about what he’s done to Fortunato. There’s no guilt or remorse here. He’s reacting physically to the damp, ill environment.

What is the Dutch translation for reliable?

In your opinion is Montresor a reliable or unreliable narrator? Why?

Q. 13 Which lines did you pick?

Q. 14 

Make sure you have explained your thoughts.

The end